I'll bet that you did not know that when fast food restaurants such as McDonalds say they use 100% real beef that they are not being entirely truthful. Well, being a large, unethical corporate giant you might actually have thought that but you'll be surprised just how far McDonalds and other purveyors of hamburgers are willing to go to widen their corporate margins.

A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education in the United States (US) discusses the level of pay for many of the nation's top private universities. In this global recession when many families the world over a struggling to simply purchase food and many of people are returning to school in order to improve their economic outlooks, the barriers to gaining a better education or new job skills through training are constantly going up.

Many students the world over have been flocking to MBA or Masters in Business Administration degree programs in order to make themselves more competitive. These MBA degrees are offered in traditional on-campus formats, distance programs, flex-format programs, and in numerous online programs such as those found at the University of Phoenix or even the famous INSEAD institution in Europe.